{"id":1277,"date":"2011-01-25T23:09:09","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T07:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2011-01-25T23:11:54","modified_gmt":"2011-01-26T07:11:54","slug":"mindshare-la-the-illusion-of-free-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/mindshare-la-the-illusion-of-free-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindshare LA: “The Illusion of Free Will”"},"content":{"rendered":"

No. this isn’t about how advertising brainwashes us all into buying the latest overpriced electronic P.O.S. (although The Onion News Network has one of the most hilarious stream-of-consciousness obscene NSFW videos about this very subject<\/a>).<\/p>\n

This is an intro to a mind-blowing speech by Caltech neurologist Moran Cerf<\/a> at last week’s Mindshare LA, wherein we all learned that we’re not alone in our heads … (cue Psycho music). In fact, we’re not really the ones behind the steering wheel up there; our decisions are made by what seems to be something of a quorum. And what we think we know … we don’t actually know. We just react to the most recent events, no matter how traumatic the actual event was … which goes a long way towards explaining why the U.S. voted the Republicans back into power. We really have no long-term recollection of how f’d up things were — just as long as they are slightly less painful NOW. There is a part of us that actually is rational, that knows and remembers … we just choose to shove that part\/persona\/personality to the background in our heads so we can go about our days cheerfully smiling into the face of our delusions.
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In the rest of Moran’s speech, he dealt with such things as what are the five things that actually make us happy (and no, money & sex were NOT on the list), and how we can “listen in” to the neurons firing in a human brain to detect if a person is thinking about Marilyn Monroe, or Josh Brolin. Wearing a red bandana around his head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No. this isn’t about how advertising brainwashes us all into buying the latest overpriced electronic P.O.S. (although The Onion News Network has one of the most hilarious stream-of-consciousness obscene NSFW videos about this very subject). This is an intro to a mind-blowing speech by Caltech neurologist Moran Cerf at last week’s Mindshare LA, wherein we […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,12],"tags":[867,494,491,496,489,488,492,853,373,490,495,493,13,30],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conspiracy-theories","category-online-video","tag-conspiracy-theories","tag-decision-making","tag-illusion-of-free-will","tag-mass-delusions","tag-mindshare-la","tag-moran-cerf","tag-neurobiology","tag-online-video","tag-pop-culture-quirkiness","tag-presentation","tag-republican-voters","tag-subconscious","tag-viral-fame","tag-visual-storytelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artesianmedia.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}